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BY KEVIN McCANEY
Despite a well-reported shortage
in cyber talent in both govern-
ment and industry, the Army
cyber mission force (CMF) has grown
“exponentially” in the last year in a half
and is on track to be fully established
in 2016 and fully operational in 2017,
its top commander said.
Lt. Gen. Edward C. Cardon, com-
mander of the Army Cyber Command,
told lawmakers March 4 that the force
has grown since September 2013, to
where 25 of 41 planned teams are at
initial operating capability. And in ad-
dition to the 41 CMF teams, the com-
mand is developing 21 Reserve-com-
ponent cyber protection teams, trained
to the same standards as CMF, for “a
total, multi-component Army cyber
force,” Cardon said.
As an addition to the active-duty
teams, Reserve and National Guard
units are an asset to the Army’s cyber
defense efforts. Many of them work in
cyber operations in the civilian sector,
giving them a head start on some uni-
formed personnel, who may show ap-
titude but, in some cases at least, have
to be trained from scratch. Reserve
and Guard teams have augment cyber
operations, supporting mission both in
the United States and abroad.
The National Guard activated one
cyber protection team in October, giv-
ing it Title 10, or active-duty, status.
And the Army Reserve recently en-
tered into a public-private partnership
with six universities and about a dozen
businesses to recruit, train and retain
cyber pros. The partnership is taking
a broad, grassroots-style approach to
building its cyber workforce, recruit-
ing cyber warriors, connecting profes-
sionals with employers and looking to
generate interest at the high school,
and even middle school, level.
“The goal of the program is to train
and educate Army Reserve soldiers
to be elite cybersecurity profession-
als through classroom work and field
experience,” Talley said. “Each of these
schools have been chosen for their
excellence in cyber security research,
teaching and their experience in help-
ing the public and private sectors ad-
dress cyber security issues.”
The schools taking part in the pro-
gram are University of Washington,
Norwich University, George Mason
University, Drexel University, Uni-
versity of Colorado and University
of Texas at San Antonio. Among the
businesses are Rackspace U.S., Ve-
rizon, Microsoft, Professional Project
Services, Chevron Corp. and Calibre
Systems. The FBI also is involved.
In his testimony before Congress,
Cardon acknowledged that getting Re-
serve and Guard soldiers the authority
to activate can be difficult, because it
can involve coordinating with a variety
of state authorities and regulations. He
said getting states to adopt a common
approach would make it easier.
Meanwhile, the Army Cyber Com-
mand has had success recruiting within
the service, Cardon said, encouraging
cadets at West Point and in ROTC to
pursue science, technology, engineer-
ing and mathematics. The Army also is
instituting a Career Management Field
for cyber warriors, which could be im-
plemented by the end of the year, and
has approved pay hikes and bonuses
for those in operational cyber assign-
ments. n
Army cyber chief says cyber force is growing
‘exponentially’ as recruitment expands
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The Cyber Operations Center at Fort Gordon, Ga., is home to signal and
military intelligence non-commissioned officers.
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